Curriculum Vitae
Last updated August 2026
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My research examines how management accounting and control systems shape behavior in organizations. Specifically, I study incentives and performance information, including what these instruments signal to employees. More recent projects deal with algorithmic decision tools and digital monitoring in management control as well as with the internal reporting of misconduct. To identify causal effects, I mainly run field experiments inside firms, often using data from their management accounting and personnel systems, and complement them with laboratory and online experiments and with survey and archival data. Much of this work concerns employee attendance and sickness absence, a topic of ongoing public policy debate.
Academic appointments
2024 – present
Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting (with tenure)Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
2020 – 2023
Assistant Professor of Controlling / Managerial AccountingFrankfurt School of Finance & Management
2015 – 2020
Research Associate, Chair of Personnel Economics and HRMUniversity of Cologne
2015 – 2019
Research AssociateDFG Research Unit „Design and Behavior – Economic Engineering of Firms and Markets“
2019
External Lecturer of Managerial AccountingFrankfurt School of Finance & Management
Education
2020
Ph.D., University of CologneSupervisors: Dirk Sliwka (first), Matthias Heinz (second)
2015
M.Sc. Economics, University of CologneDean's Award for outstanding academic achievements
2012
Study Abroad, Barcelona Graduate School of EconomicsTuition waiver
2012
B.Sc. Economics, University of CologneDean's Award for outstanding academic achievements
2011
Study Abroad, Trinity College DublinSocrates / Erasmus scholarship
Academic visits
2019
Frankfurt School of Finance & Managementinvited by Matthias D. Mahlendorf
2017
University of Chicagoinvited by Steven D. Levitt
Teaching
Selected lectures and seminars. Supervision of more than 40 bachelor and 20 master theses.
2022, 2024
Field ExperimentsPhD
2019 – 2025
Managerial AccountingUndergraduate, module coordinator
2020 – 2025
Internes RechnungswesenUndergraduate, module coordinator
2023, 2024
Topic and Data Generation in Managerial AccountingUndergraduate seminar
2016 – 2020
Business Projects (various topics)Graduate seminar
2015, 2016
Empirical Evaluation of Management PracticesGraduate seminar and tutorial
Selected talks
Presentations at seminars and conferences, most recent first.
2026
Tilburg University (scheduled)
2025
Harvard Business School, University of Amsterdam, University of Cologne
2024
University of Tübingen, Journal of Accounting Research Registered Report Conference
2023
Erasmus Accounting Workshop (plenary speaker), 19th Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research, Ulm University
2022
European Accounting Association Annual Congress (Bergen), Maastricht University
2021
London School of Economics, Journal of Accounting Research Second Registered Reports Conference, LMU Munich
2017
University of Chicago, Colloquium on Personnel Economics (Zurich), IMEBESS (Barcelona)
Awards, grants, and rankings
2026
Granted access to 50,000 km² of Planet satellite imagery (worth approx. $100,000)
2025
Ranked 2nd among German-speaking business researchers under 40, based on A+ publications (Forschungsmonitor.de)
2020 – 2025
ECONtribute Research Grants, six awards totalling approx. €110,000
2016
C-SEB Workshop Grant, „Structural Estimation“ (€2,000)
2016
Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB) Junior Start-Up Research Grant (€4,000)
Editorial roles
Editorial Board
European Accounting Review, since 2026
Associate Editor
Accounting Open, since 2025
Editorial Board
Management Accounting Research, since 2025
Further service
Ad hoc referee
Economic Inquiry, European Accounting Review, Human Resources Management and Services, International Review of Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Autonomous Intelligence, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Management Accounting Research, Management Science, The Accounting Review, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Conference referee and organization
Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics Conference · Management Accounting Midyear Meeting · Emerging Scholars in Accounting (2022, 2023) · Workshop on Structural Estimation with Charles Bellemare (2016)